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    Shunned For Love
    Shunned For Love
    Shunned For Love
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    Shunned For Love

    By Tina Kunkle

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    Emma was born and raised in one of the oldest Amish communities in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. After being ex-communicated as a teenager, she went to live in the English world, eventually becoming a detective with the Harrisburg police department. Life as she knew it was good, until her phone rang late one night and she heard a voice she never thought she would hear again. A voice that still, after all these years, made her heart pound faster and beat a little louder.

    Emma knew the Amish community was forbidding to ever speak to her again on the day she was shunned, so if Rachel Yoder was going against the church and calling her, it couldn’t be good.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTriplicity Publishing, LLC
    Release dateAug 4, 2015
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      Shunned For Love - Tina Kunkle

      Shunned For Love

      By

      Tina Kunkle

      Shunned For Love © 2015 Tina Kunkle

      Triplicity Publishing, LLC

      Smashwords Edition

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without permission.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events of any kind, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Printed in the United States of America

      First Edition – 2015

      Cover Design: Triplicity Publishing, LLC

      Interior Design: Triplicity Publishing, LLC

      Editing: Lauren Weiler - Triplicity Publishing, LLC

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      CHAPTER 1

      After working for 36 straight hours, Emma was not pleased when her phone rang at two in the morning, waking her. She reached over in the pitch black of the darkness and fumbled around with her hand on the nightstand to find it. She picked it up and looked to see who in their right mind would be calling her at such an ungodly hour. It was a number she didn’t recognize. She answered and growled, this better be important, damn it!

      Emma? It’s me, Rachel Yoder.

      Surprised by the voice on the other end she sat up on the edge of the bed. The voice was familiar and one she thought she’d never ever here again.

      Softly she asked, Rachel, is that really you?

      Yah, it tis, webishtew?

      I’m good, but what’s wrong? Why are you calling?

      My husband Elli was found dead yesterday.

      Saddened about the news, Emma replied, Rachel, I’m so sorry to hear that.

      He was dead on purpose, Emma.

      I don’t understand, what do you mean?

      He was killed and the bishops just wanted to bury him and not contact the English law. If I go against them and call, my family and I will be excommunicated.

      Emma laughed a little. Rachel, if they find out you’re talking to me, you would be shunned as well.

      Yah, tis is true but I had to do something. You are the only one I know in the English world. Please help me.

      I will come see you at first light, if that’s alright.

      That’s fine. Word got back to the community that you were a police officer.

      Actually, I’m a detective now, but that doesn’t matter. I’ll see you in the morning.

      Denki, Emma.

      You’re welcome, Rachel.

      Emma laid back down on her pillow. Did that really just happen? Did Rachel just call? She pinched her arm to make sure she was awake and wasn’t dreaming. The last time she talked to her was 20 years ago when they both were 17 years old. Then, they both were from the old order Amish community in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and had grown up together. She was Emma’s best friend.

      The Amish community in Lancaster is the oldest and biggest. They settled there in the 1700s. They are plain and simple people.

      Emma was once a member until she was excommunicated at the age of 17 for giving her heart to someone her community thought was a sin in the eyes of the Lord.

      They call the outsiders English and don’t follow in their ways. Emma had heard people stating that the Amish think the outsiders are evil, but that’s not true—they actually don’t judge. The main motivation for them is humility—they believe that the English ways promote pride, greed, immortality and materialism. They don’t use electricity or drive cars, as horses and buggies are their only transportation. They have no phones or televisions and they don’t like to be photographed because it’s considered prideful and, again, a sin in their beliefs. Being ex-Amish, Emma believed in some of their ways, but not all . She doesn’t think having her photo taken is a sin, nor is having ilectricity. Being able towatch TV isn’t that a big a deal. A man beating his wife can be forgiven, but having electricity cannot—this makes absolutely no sense in her mind.

      Emma tried to watch some of the television shows that are about the Amish but they made her angry. They were nothing like the real Amish. They were made to make Hollywood money and nothing else, and the sad thing was the English bought into it. The one that upset her the most was the show that said there were Amish mafia. It’s totally ludicrous. The show is based on how the Amish community join in to help each other if a family falls on tough times. They pitch in with food, money, and clothes. No one is made to pay money into a fund. They might take up a collection to help someone out but it’s not forced, nor is there violence if they don’t pay.

      Hollywood used the communities to line their own pockets. Emma knew that all the money they were making didn’t come back to the community to help the real Amish out, and they truly needed it. The bigger farms were being split and sold off. The farming way of life was getting harder and harder for them to live. Where there once was a field of hay growing, now there was a field of houses. It was a sad sight indeed. A lot of the men had to go to work in English factories and businesses to feed their families. The old world ways were starting to fade and they had to learn to adapt to this new world. It’s harder now to live the Amish way of life than it has ever been before. A lot are leaving their communities in search of more land elsewhere so they can try to live the true Amish life.

      Emma was happier living as an English. There is good and bad in the Amish community just like in any other culture. They are far more forgiving than the English. They tend to settle everything in the church; contacting the outside world is their last resort. That is one thing Emma never understood. Being a detective in the Harrisburg police department, she could no longer stand by and watch them bury their secrets. They needed to be held accountable for their actions just like the rest of the world. To say she had an axe to grind with them was an understatement.

      There are different reasons she wouldn’t want to be a part of the community anymore even if they did allow her to come back. One being that when she was 12 years old, a friend

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